Engineering and Physical Sciences in the media - March 2015

Posted on 24 Mar 2015

Dr Graham Smith was interviewed on Heart FM and BBC Radio WM about the solar eclipse and an event hosted by University of Birmingham astronomers at the Cathedral during the eclipse. The astronomy event was also picked up by the Birmingham Mail and the Birmingham Post.

The announcement of the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) hub as part of the new £60 million energy research programme for Budget 2015 was mentioned in BBC News, and the Birmingham Post. ProfessorToby Peters (Birmingham Energy Institute) also commented on ERA in an article titled ‘Midlands universities win £60m funding boost’ featured in BBC News.

Birmingham work on the optical bench of the LISA Pathfinder Satellitewas featured in an article in phys.org, which details how an intimate view of a key part of the payload will be the ‘stillest’ ever flown in space.

PhD student Maggie Lieu was interviewed on Al Jazeera about the Mars One Mission.